Strangers on familiar soil
Subtitle: rediscovering the chile-california connection
By: Edward Dallam Melillo
Series: Yale agrarian studies; Yale agrarian studies
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 325
ISBN-13: 9780300206623
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Chilean Americans; Economic conditions; History
Description: This groundbreaking history explores the many unrecognized, enduring linkages between the state of California and the country of Chile. The book begins in 1786, when a French expedition brought the potato from Chile to California, and it concludes with Chilean president Michelle Bachelet's diplomatic visit to the Golden State in 2008. During the intervening centuries, new crops, foods, fertilizers, mining technologies, laborers, and ideas from Chile radically altered California's development.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-308) and index.